Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-04
TEE Writ REFUSED.
The Supreme Court through the Chief
Justice Denies the Anarchists
the Writ of Error.
The Ccns,itationali,y OF the Trfsl Up
held, AID the Prisoners Lose
Their Most Favorable Hope.
How tho Ill Fsted Men Receive the InteIIi.
geDce, Some StOlidly, Others More
Excitedly-Whst tho Police Say.
WITHDRAW FROM THE KNIGHTS.

| WITHDRAW FROM THE KNIGHTS.
CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. AT meeting
OF Assembly 1907, knights of Labor, last
night. it was decided by majority vote
that the assembly would withdraw imme-
diately from the Knights Of Labor organ
izstion. a committee was appointed to
confer with the provisional Cemmis-
sioner" OF dissenters, with the object OF
forming nucleus OF the proposed new
organization. Local Assembly 1907 is
the one which formerly contained Parsons,
the condemned anarchist, in its member
ship. This is the first body of Knights
SO lar as known to withdraw from the
order in response TO the appeal of the
provisional committee.
THEY REFUSE CLEMENCY.
CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. 2.-George Eugess,
Louis Lingg and Adolph Fischer of the
group Of condemned anarchists have
written open letters to Governor Oglesby
refusing any communication OF sentence
apart from liberty, and declaring unaba-
ted faith in the principles OF anarchy.
Their letters are very long and consist
mainly Of an exposition Of their we'll
known ideas regarding the social condi-
ton existing and the necessity for
remedies. They declare in sub
stance they are not guilty Of
any crimes. They hsve exercised the
rights of free speech, free thought snd
free assemblage. as guaranteed by the
constitution, and have criticised the exist
ing evils and succOred their fellow citi-
zens with their advice, as is right of
every honest citizen. Their experience,
they say, has ersdicsted their belief in the
existence OF equal rights Of poor and rich,
and the actions Of public officers, the
police and militia, hsve produced q belief
that the present conditions cannot last
long Not being conscious OF any guilt,
they say the powers that be may murder,
but cannot legally punish them, and they
protest against the communication of the
sentence, demanding either liberty or
death. Fischer, il his letter, declares
among other things that if he is held re-
spor siole for the death Of the policemen
st the Hsymarket, every Abolitionist
could have been held responsible for the
deeds Of John Brown. Therefore, he could
not ask or accept mercy without lower
ing himself in mis- seIf-estimation He
asks II defaming and misrepre-
senting the advocates snd teach
ings Of social reconstruction will do
any good, and as an answer
quotes an excerpt from Benjamin Frank
Inns essay, "Rules for reducing q great
empire TO G small ons," directed 10 the
English government in 17T6, in which
franklin saws: "A few Of the factions
demsgogues' should be hanged. The
blood OF martyrs shall work miracles in
favor OF your purpose"-i. e., our ruin.
SUPPRESSED MENTAL EXCITEMENT.
| CuTHAH0 foaJinoy ~
intense nervousness or mental excite
ment, ell the more evident from the eff
fort to suppress it on the part Of those
who were influenced by it. pervaded that
part OF the county Jail which Is occupied
by the condemned anarchists this morn
, ing, and it was with an evident feeling OF
suspense that the condemned men paced
the floor when they took their exercise.
This feeling was no doubt owing to the
expecting of the decision of the Supreme
court in their case and the suspense in
which they are until they receive it. De-
, spite the dieQuietude of their minds, they
all did their best to preserve their out
, ward demeanor. Lingg and Fischer
!, locked as defiant as ever, and Spies loses
none Of his cynical expression as the fatal
! day approaches. Parsons does his
best to preserve his j0lIity, but
this forenoon his attempts at gaiety were
sorry ones, and it was evident from his
every act and general manner that he too
felt the gravity of the situation, and that
his spirit suffered as deeply IS GnY Of the
, others from the Importance Of the
message, which in a few short hours he
expected to receive, fixing his fate so FAR
.. as the courts of the land could do it.
Feilden's cOntempatiVeness was given
full SWING. and nobody who watched him
,, could doubt for moment thst the one
subject he Yves bordering in his mind was
what the decision of the highest court
,, in the land on his case would be-
,, The habitusl deep-se pallor of Schwsb's
cOuntenance was more msrked than ever
. before, and those who watched him won
dered in their own minds if the exscu-
toner would anticipate by any very long
period the ordinary laws OF nature in con
signing him to the tomb. Engel he's the
, most stolid countenance In the lot, but
even his apparently sluggish nature was
considerably ruffied to-day, and il was
plain that mentally he was es deeply in
! terested as the others in whist the purport
of!the expected message would be.
THE FIRST NEWS.
: The first news OF the decision of the
supreme court IN the case or the ansF-
chists wss taken to the county5 jail by an
Associated Press reporter few minutes
7 offer it had been received from Washing
ton. There were NO visitors ct the Jail
to-day, and all the prisoners were in their
cells when the news arrived. A note was
, sent up to Spies telling him that the writ
I had been denied, and asking il he had
2 any statement to make in regard to the
3 matter. Spies was sitting in his cell
D busily engaged with some manuscript
? He read the note, and returned it with q
short al hsve nothing to say" None OF
}. the other men would ssy anything either.
y Everything is perfectly quiet in and
around the jail and in fact ell over the
3 whole city. The denial of the writ was
+, universally expected here. The police
j nave all thought that the court would not
s interfere, and the general impression
: among them is that the sentence will be
carried into effect November IL.
"If they are to be hung ct all" SAID
Lieutenant Fitzpatrick, "they should ok
e on that day. The suspense OF E reprievt
r by Governor 0glesby would have 3 ba(
. effect and would not only to q crest ex
tent lessen the moral example, but would
entail additional suspense on the prison
ers.''